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Local Sports

East Liverpool boys race to top of OVAC

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The East Liverpool boys track and field team is enjoying a once-in-a-lifetime season. The Potters claimed their first-ever Ohio Valley Athletic Conference All-Class team title on Saturday and their second Class 4A team title since the inception of the OVAC Championships in ...

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Lisbon coaches to enter HOF COLUMBUS — Former Lisbon High School head coaches Jim Tsilimos and Mike Pavlansky will be inducted into the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association (OHSFCA) Hall of Fame on June 13. It will be held at the Easton Grand Ballroom at the Hilton of Easton with ...

Oak Glen takes OVAC small school tennis title

GLEN DALE, W.Va. — The fourth – and final – day of the OVAC Tennis Tournament provided some new faces atop the leaderboard at the sun-filled, but wind-swept courts on Thursday at John Marshall High School. In the ‘Small School,’ Class 1A-4A division, Oak Glen ended Linsly’s ...

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Brown has strong showing ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Lisbon eighth-grader Elijah Brown was the only local winner at the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Middle School Championships on Thursday. Brown won the boys long jump with a leap of 18-feet-11 on his last attempt at Red Devil Stadium. He had ...

Area teams mostly stay in same divisions

COLUMBUS — Crestview is the only area football team changing divisions this fall. The Rebels will drop to Division VI, according to new divisional breakdowns released by the Ohio High School Athletic Association on Thursday Salem is only three boys shy of moving up to Division III, while ...

Bears claim sixth OVAC crown

WHEELING, W.Va. — Oak Glen’s softball team rallied back from an early two-run deficit to claim its sixth Ohio Valley Athletic Conference softball title as the Golden Bears stopped Harrison Central 6-3 on Friday in the Class 4A title game at the I-470 complex. The fourth-seeded Huskies ...